From: John v. V. <joh...@ya...> - 2002-06-05 17:51:18
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About security risks, I cannot see how this could possibly be. In the past I have written scripts to do man pages simply becuase similar man pages exist in different directories under different numbers. Over simplified: cat /usr/man/man1/<manpage> | nroff -man | more It seems like a waste to put them in the SHMFS file system even though the would eventually get paged out to the swap area. It would be nice if alternate tracks could be mounted as file systems, which would be ideal since it is just documentation. John PS making latest ISO, thinking about creating a /opt directory for HD based applications --- Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...> wrote: > Hey, > > I have more and more the problem, that I need access to man pages while I > modify my running DL servers. > But I'm not sure if we should add the man pages to the system: > 1. man has some security risks and some serious problems in the past > 2. the size of the image would grow quite a bit (wouldn't be such a big > problem, if we gzip all of them. Can man handle bz2?) > > What do you think? > > -- > > cu > Heiko > > http://www.devil-linux.org > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _______________________________________________ > Devil-linux-develop mailing list > Dev...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/devil-linux-develop ===== John van Vlaanderen ############################################# # CXN, Inc. Contact: jo...@th... # # # Proud Sponsor of The Linux Society # # http://www.thelinuxsociety.org # ############################################# __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com |